unseenjapan, Kore-eda Hirokazu's MONSTER is a complex film showcasing timely anxieties in a firmly Kore-eda-style package. While the film feels all Kore-eda’s, its surprising structure recalls a much older work by another master filmmaker: Kurosawa Akira‘s seminal Rashomon.
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